Comments on: Flixel 2 Tutorial [Flash, Tutorials, Games]

By: Amir

Amir — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:20:00 +0000

Thank you very much for comment. Without you, I could not have succeeded.
Regards,
Amir

By: xinkuzi

xinkuzi — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:23:00 +0000

Awesome tutorial, thanks for sharing! Unfortunately I have been running into some errors. I solved the first few problems I had (noob problems) but now I’m getting this when I try to “test project” in FlashDevelop, or run the compiled swf:

[Fault] exception, information=ArgumentError: Error #1063: Argument count mismatch on org.flixel::FlxGame(). Expected 3, got 0.

Any idea? Thanks!

By: Pixelate

Pixelate — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:39:00 +0000

@Chris, thanks for sharing your fixes for the tutorial!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:54:00 +0000

Guess the particle image showed up as an attachment and not an avatar.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:53:00 +0000

Thanks Andreas, this tutorial was great. I learned a lot about Flixel by following it.
I did this last night using the version of Flixel you used. I did it again tonight (23/08/2011) using the current Master version of Flixel, 2.55. Here’s the changes I had to make to make it work with the newer version of Flixel. I’m hoping it’ll help out anyone else that’s using a newer version of Flixel:

First, using mxmlc as my compiler I was getting an error of “VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.core::SpriteAsset could not be found.” This has nothing to do with which version of Flixel is being used. It was fixed by adding the argument “-static-link-runtime-shared-libraries=true” when compiling.

changed “bgColor” to “FlxG.bgColor”
changed “_ship.dead == false” to “_ship.alive”
changed “createGraphic” to “makeGraphic”
changed “_ship.dead” to “!_ship.alive”
changed “FlxG.quake.start” to “FlxG.shake”
changed “FlxU.overlap” to “FlxG.overlap” I think “FlxG.collision” would work too.
changed “FlxG.state = new PlayState();” to FlxG.resetState();”
changed “emitter.delay” to “emitter.lifespan”

I had what seemed to be an odd issue after those changes. The particles were little Flex logos as opposed to the particles in your original example. This may not be the best way to do this, but here’s how I fixed it based off reading the docs for Flixel v2.55:

I removed the for Loop in createEmitter() in Playstate.as. (Starts as for (var i:int; i < particles; i ++))
Then I added these two lines in Playstate.as's header by where you embed the sound files:
[code]
[Embed(source="../assets/png/particle.png")]
private var _imgParticle:Class;
[/code]

I added this line where the for loop used to be in createEmitter():
[code]
emitter.makeParticles(_imgParticle, 10);
[/code]

And I of course had to make the particle png, I just used KolourPaint to make a 4px X 4px png filled with 0×597137 and named it particle.png in my assets/png folder. To save anyone else the trouble if this is indeed the correct way to do this with Flixel now the image of the particle should show up as my avatar for this comment.

Again, thanks for the great tutorial Andreas. Prior to this I had been banging my head against the wall trying to learn how to make a game in AS3. But this has shown me just how easy and great Flixel is so I'm going to play around with Flixel while I'm learning more of the complex issues with making a game from scratch.
-Chris

By: confused

confused — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:20:00 +0000

Now if only there was a way for me to find out what all of this meant. I guess I’ll go do some beginner tutorials and try again.

By: Barrow

Barrow — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:34:00 +0000

Thanks dewey, was having a hard time trying to figure out the “dead” and “state” thing myself.

As for quake, I’m not sure what it used to do, but it looks like the new syntax is “FlxG.shake(.02);”

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:42:00 +0000

“- FlxG.quake doesn’t seem to exist any more… do you know what the newest function for quaking is?”

FlxG.shake seems to be it.

By: dewey

dewey — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:26:00 +0000

Appreciate the response! A couple other small things:

I’m using the latest Flixel “master” build:

- player.dead appears to now be !player.alive
- FlxU.state doesn’t really work as it is now read-only… I have FlxG.resetState in there at the moment, but have no idea whether or not that’s correct.
- FlxG.quake doesn’t seem to exist any more… do you know what the newest function for quaking is?

Thanks!

–d

By: dewey

dewey — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:26:00 +0000

Appreciate the response! A couple other small things:

I’m using the latest Flixel “master” build:

Thanks!

–d